Links to Useful Resources

The following resources are in English:

IPA chart and pronunciation demos:

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/chapter1.html

Type IPA symbols online:

http://ipa.typeit.org/full/

Maps of Languages and Dialects in China:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chinese/maps/maps.html

Online Cantonese Dictionary:

http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/

Chinese Text Project:

http://ctext.org/

The following resources are in Chinese:

漢典 is an online character dictionary with explanations and citations from the Shuowen Jiezi and Kangxi Zidian

http://www.zdic.net/

韻典網 is a website where you can look up characters in various rime dictionaries and books with regard to their rime class, initial class, tonal class and reconstructed pronunciations

http://ytenx.org/

东方语言学 is also a website where you can look up characters with regard to the same type of information as above

http://www.eastling.org/

Sample Shanghainese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVshaIGBBZo

Sample Cantonese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saZBKeLhmPo

Sample Taiwanese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mryivbgweeA